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The new-and-improved Jefferson School as seen through architectural renderings.
DRAWINGS BY BUSHMAN DREYFUS
The future owners of the Jefferson School vow that it will be a community treasure....

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Some people know him as a quiet man who walks his dog along East Market Street. Some people know him as a boisterous preservationist for the Woolen Mills neighborhood. Some know him for his recent...

34 comments "I hope more people get to know how much fun ice skating and hockey are, and will participate in the sports," says Roberta Williamson, left, with new owner Mark Brown, his daughters, Annabel and...

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Steve Shifflett says suing is the only way he can be compensated for having his name "dragged through the mud."PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLOEvery time he drives his Crown Vic with the "SHERIFF"...

3 commentsA 100-foot tree crushed the facilities at Lane Field during the June 24 storm.
PHOTO COURTESY LANE LEAGUE
Just a week after ACAC came to the rescue and announced it would fund the light bill for the...

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The history guysPHOTO BY TOM COGILL
If you'd asked historians Brian Balogh, Peter Onuf, and Ed Ayers six years ago how they'd feel about becoming popular radio personalities, they would have laughed...

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Because they were designed from scratch and are painstakingly built by hand, each of the four Very Light Cars has cost "more than any luxury sedan to build," says Kuttner, declining to give an exact...

13 commentsBack around the turn of the century, I decided to hike to Monticello with my then 10-year-old son. The challenge was to get there and back without retracing our steps.
We park in the empty lot of the...

58 commentsThe signs drew honks of support and occasional jeers from passing drivers.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
A group of local citizens staged a peaceful Sunday afternoon protest at one of Charlottesville's BP-...

3 commentsThe mysterious third-floor Dome Room will finally be open to the public on June 11. PHOTO BY TOM DALY
Monticello was designed for the pleasure and architectural curiosity of its owner, but as a new...

0 commentsDespite a field of seven Republican candidates, independent Jeff Clark vows to run if State Senator Robert Hurt wins the primary, opening up the possibility of a "New York 23rd" that could split the...

71 commentsGeorge Huguely on the field and behind bars. What compelled his rage?
UVA SPORTS/POLICE PHOTO
Papa loved mama
Mama loved men
Mama's in the graveyard
Papa's in the pen
–Carl Sandburg
Why would...

251 commentsYeardley Love and George Huguely.
UVA SPORTS
Imagine the families. Chevy Chase, Maryland and Cockeysville, Maryland are only about an hour apart. George Huguely and Yeardley Love had been dating for...

144 commentsAlcohol and violence were factors in George W. Huguely V's 2008 arrest in Lexington.
ROCKBRIDGE REGIONAL JAIL
A red-stained UVA lacrosse t-shirt and a letter to Yeardley Love are among the items...

4 commentsHundreds, perhaps thousands, of mourners packed UVA's McIntire Amphitheater the evening of May 5 to celebrate and remember the life of Yeardley Love, the 22-year-old lacrosse player killed in her...

190 commentsPresident John Casteen, Allen Groves, Patricia Lampkin, and Craig Littlepage.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
UVA President John Casteen deflected blame from the university by suggesting that a Rockbridge...

39 commentsYeardley Love was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and the UVA women's lacrosse team.
PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR/INSET PHOTO UVA SPORTS
On May 23, 22-year-old Yeardley Love should have had every...

146 commentsHarrington's t-shirt was found just three blocks from the site of Yeardley's death.
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Just three weeks after the father of murder victim Morgan Harrington spoke publicly of the need for...

106 commentsNumber 11, Huguely played his last home game May 1.
PHOTOS; UVA SPORTS, CPD
In 1912, George W. Huguely Sr. co-founded the building supply company that built Washington, D.C.; and four generations...

80 commentsHuguely had only to travel next door to visit his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love, who lived in an annex behind this old house on 14th Street.
PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR
"The door to Love's bedroom had...

111 commentsLawrence begins unveiling a "not intended" defense for his client, right inset. Such strategy helped Chambers, left inset, in 1986.
PHOTO: LISA PROVENCE, REUTERS, CPD
The attorney for George Wesley...

179 commentsPolice have arrested fourth year UVA lacrosse player George Huguely in the death of fellow student and women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love.
PHOTO BY BOB
Police have arrested 22-year-old UVA men's...

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A smoky, oak-stoked fire gives the shad at distinctive mahogany color.
The 62nd annual Shad Planking was celebrated April 21 near Wakefield in southeastern Virginia. George Allen was there. So was I...